Cooperation

Defenition:

• work or act together toward a common end or purpose.
• acquiesce willingly; be compliant

Discussion:
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Quotables:
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“Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate toward some goal which they come to find desirable.”-Ordway Tead
This quote explains the cooperation in a group. Tead clearly defines what cooperation means and the importances of cooperation.

• "The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation." -**Bertrand Russell**
  • Russel proves a very good point in this particular quotation. He means that when the human race falls for any reason, it is man's own greed and pride that keeps the entire race from rising again. It is only after mankind can work together cooperatively, as Russell points out, can they successfully live in peace.
• We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now. –Martin Luther King Jr. [http://en.proverbia.net/citastema.asp?tematica=258]
  • This quote by MLK Jr. explains the feelings of the civil rights era. Even though people come from different backgrounds and races, an idea like human or civil rights should bring everyone together. Cooperation is key to ending segregation and racial bigotry.
• What you always do before you make a decision is consult. The best public policy is made when you are listening to people who are going to be impacted. Then, once policy is determined, you call on them to help you sell it.
  ~Elizabeth Dole
  • This quote is saying that everyone needs to work together to achieve something. One person may be the leader, but that leader still needs the support and cooperation of everyone around to help make it happen.
• We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now- MLK
  • This quote by MLK serves to explain that while it is true that all races have different origins: they are all living together now and cooperation must exist among them
• "Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace." - Dwight D Eisenhower
  • This quote is stating that only when these four techniques are used, will the world reach peace. Everyone must have justice, fairness, consideration and we must cooperate to make it work. To achieve our one true goal, peace on earth.
• “Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police” - Albert Einstein
  
  • This quote is stating that from person to person is a better trust then in courts. Meaning that the courts( government) is not always the most cooperative.
• "Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • This quote is stating that with the help of cooperation, men would be able to live in peace at last. The reason there is war, murders, killings, bombings etc is because people are not willing to cooperate with anyone different then themselves. Eisenhower is saying that although using force can protect in emergency it is not a peaceful approach and the only way the world would be a peaceful place is if man was willing to put their differences aside and cooperate with one another.
• "Leadership is based on inspiration, not domination; on cooperation, not intimidation.” ~William Arthur Ward
  • In this quote, Ward is saying that a good leader uses teamwork and cooperation with others and does not depend on just their own ideas, but the ideas of many.

• “Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the **cooperation** of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.”- Alexander Graham Bell
  • Through these words, Bell displays the keys of cooperation in achieving progress. Bell states that he has been given credit for many achievements throughout his life. In this quote, Bell is giving the recognition to the cooperation of the inventors of his age, rather than just himself. Through cooperation, the impossible becomes possible.
• “The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.”

Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
Within the quote, cooperation seems the only manner in which everyone will be able to get along. If everyone were to cooperate, war, conflict, and misunderstandings may be able to completely disappear from society. The redemption of mankind refers to the end of conflict with other individual. It is only through cooperation that such conflict can be resolved.

• “Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, the laws of death.”

- John Ruskin
This quote is say when the government cooperates within it self and society, life will be good. When there is competition and anarchy life will not be good

• “It is through cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will be derived"
  • Cooperation helps people achieve their goals. If people do not work together, they can not succeed. Conflict does not help to achieve goals. The only way to obtain success is through cooperation.

• Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.
  - Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • This quote is referring that simply working together in cooperation itself is a great achievement. Cooperation is what will lead to progress.

• "When men are brought face to face with their opponents,
  forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease
  to be children and savages and begin to live like civilized men.
  Then only is freedom a reality, when men may voice their opinions
  because they must examine their opinions."

- Walter Lippmann

• Men face their opponents in order to listen to their ideas and cooperate to achieve a certain goal.

• If you want me to change, you have to give me the chance to try. - Boy Meets World
  • This quote is just showing how people make demands of their friends and/or family members, but aren't willing to give them the opportunity to change, therefore cooperation is something that not only one person has to use but both people in order to reach a compromise.
• "We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth." ~George Bernard Shaw
• This quote by George Bernard Shaw means that we are all dependent on one another. The world wouldn't function the way it does today if none of us cooperated with each other. In a way, it is like a cycle. For example, I am an employee at an produce store, I need the customer so I can make money and they make money to feed themselves. They need me to supply them with food so the can live. That was a small example of how we are all dependent on one anthoner. It's the way of life.